The slaveholders of the South have bought the coöperation of the Western country by the bribe of the Western lands, abandoning to the new Western States their own proportion of this public property, and aiding them in the design of grasping all the lands in their own hands.
Quincy describes how Southern slaveholders manipulate Western interests through land deals.
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